When Major League Baseball created a single game wildcard postseason playoff, it also created a unique new dynamic for clubs to contend with. Should teams go all out to win the division, or rest players as needed and be willing to settle for second place and the massive gamble of a single elimination game to start the playoffs? Early on in the 2018 season, it already appears that there will be multiple division races that will also produce a wildcard team, where managers will have to make that difficult decision.
For today, the weekly Baseball Swarm comes in hotter than a two-dollar pistol. Tuesday’s swarm duplicated last Friday’s 10-5 record, once again clicking on their top 5 predictions. Today’s swarm cast a confident eye on tonight’s games for this set of predictions.
One team that finds itself in what looks like a season-long scrum to win a division and avoid the single-game wildcard playoff is the New York Yankees. Tonight they’re in Charm City to play the last-place Baltimore Orioles. This is the kind of intra-divisional scrum that the Yankees need to win to keep pace with the division-leading Boston Red Sox.
The Yankees winning this contest is the swarm’s pick of the night. We can see a lot of confidence in the replay above, with the main dissent from the consensus being a small split between magnets pulling to a 1-run win prediction instead of the high-confidence indicator of a 2-run win (which is where the puck settles). The swarm made this game their pick of the night, selecting it over the Milwaukee vs Chicago White Sox contest.
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